Daily Archives: 2018-03-17

Below is a letter written by one of the commuters involved in the collision at Joo Koon MRT station on 15 Nov 2017, which describes his experience of claiming reimbursement from SMRT Firstly, I am not writing this to shame SMRT. And overall, I got a resolution. But it certainly could have gone a lot better though. I was one …

The heavy rain on Saturday (17 March) late afternoon caused the collapse of a tree at Jurong West Street 51, nearly pinning a car and obstructed traffic due to the size of the fallen foliage. A member of the public wrote to the website to inform of this accident and said that the incident is said to have happened around 5.30pm. Several vehicles …

by Kwok Fangjie Channel News Asia Insider ran a story on Saturday (17 Mar) highlighting how the Taipei Metro has turned itself around under President B C Yen and became twice as reliable as Singapore’s MRT system. However, the metro system did not start out well. It said that the Taipei Metro “opened in 1996 was not always a success story. In …

A controversial and unpublished law amendment was passed by the House of Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia (DPR-RI) in the third week of February 2018. DPR-RI silently passed the revision on the Law of Representative Assemblies, known as the MD3 law. If this amendment comes into effect, criticism of Indonesian politicians will be deterred and accountability of the politicians …

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